05/12/2025
“I felt a lump in the middle of January, had a biopsy on Valentine’s Day, and was diagnosed with Stage 1, triple positive Invasive Ductal Carcinoma on February 18. A port was installed in my chest two days after I turned 40; chemotherapy began flowing through it five days later. By July, I’d finished six rounds before my lumpectomy surgery in August. Yesterday (finally, yesterday!) was my 19th and final round of radiation. While maintenance and monitoring will always be a part of my life, I can now comfortably talk about my cancer without the raw fear that it will “scare people off.”
